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Afloat and Ashore
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Title: Afloat And Ashore
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Release Date: August, 2005 [EBook #8647] [This file was first posted on July 29, 2003]
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AFLOAT AND ASHORE
A SEA TALE
BY
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits." Two Gentlemen of Verona
PREFACE.
The writer has published so much truth which the world has insisted was fiction, and so much fiction which has been received as tru